linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][RESEND] checkpatch: Add warning for p0-patches

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:55:22 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] checkpatch: Add warning for p0-patches

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:36:10PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Some people work internally with -p0-patches which has the danger that
> one forgets to convert them to -p1 before mainlining. Bitten myself and
> seen p0-patches in mailing lists occasionally, this patch adds a warning
> to checkpatch.pl in case a patch is -p0. If you really want, you can
> fool this check to generate false positives, this is why it just spits a
> warning. Making the check 100% proof is trickier than it looks, so let's
> start with a version which catches the cases of real use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl |    8 +++++++-
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index f88bb3e..dae5854 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1051,6 +1051,7 @@ sub process {
>  	my $in_comment = 0;
>  	my $comment_edge = 0;
>  	my $first_line = 0;
> +	my $p1_prefix = '';
>  
>  	my $prev_values = 'E';
>  
> @@ -1196,7 +1197,12 @@ sub process {
>  		# extract the filename as it passes
>  		if ($line=~/^\+\+\+\s+(\S+)/) {
>  			$realfile = $1;
> -			$realfile =~ s@^[^/]*/@@;
> +			$realfile =~ s@^([^/]*)/@@;
> +
> +			$p1_prefix = $1;
> +			if ($tree && -e "$root/$p1_prefix") {
> +				WARN("Patch prefix '$p1_prefix' exists. Is it maybe a p0-patch?\n");
> +			}
>  
>  			if ($realfile =~ m@...clude/asm/@) {
>  				ERROR("do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n");

Looks reasonable.  Committed this with a few mods to my tree.  Will be
in the next batch of updates.

-apw
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